Glossary

Layout

The arrangement of fields through which an activity captures or queries data. It is not a data entry screen but a point of data governance: each field must correspond to a justified entity,…

The arrangement of fields through which an activity captures or queries data. It is not a data entry screen but a point of data governance: each field must correspond to a justified entity, attribute, rule or piece of evidence.

Treating it as a screen rather than a data declaration is what produces forms demanding everything up front. The layout expresses what this particular activity needs, which is why it differs from one to the next.

Related terms

Executable configuration

The materialization of the design on the platform: states, activities, forms, transitions, rules, related data, assignments and notifications.

Mandatory by state

A rule defining which data are required at each point of the process, rather than demanding everything up front.

Related Data

The mechanism connecting the data model to process execution, associating with each activity the tables it captures or queries, with state-based mandatory fields, scope filters and in-place…